Help students understand what role the women at NASA were hired to do (carry out the sort of calculations that calculators and computers now do, based on others’ instructions), how hard that work was, and also how it was different from what the white male engineers were expected to do (apply mathematical ideas in new ways to problems that no one had solved before). Lesson Launch: Play one or more trailers from the movie, Hidden Figures.
Hidden Figures trailers: (particularly the second trailer, “Give or Take”įolders or books to put up between students to make a barrier to hide each other’s work during the “Mission Control” gameĮither tangram or pattern block pieces or graphs and graph paper, depending on which version of the “Mission Control” game you want students to play Finally they reflect on their experiences dealing with mathematical frustrations, and the ways that Katherine Johnson’s experiences as a Black woman might have helped prepare her to be a pioneer in her field. Overview: Students discuss Hidden Figures and what it might have meant that Katherine Johnson had to “make new mathematics” where “there is no formula.” They play a game about communicating mathematical ideas across barriers, that may force them to “see beyond the numbers” and come up with new mathematics.
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